PiperFilm and Playtime Team on New Italian Cinema Sales Company Piperplay With Giulia Casavecchia on Board as International Sales Chief (EXCLUSIVE)

PiperFilm and Playtime Team on New Italian Cinema Sales Company Piperplay With Giulia Casavecchia on Board as International Sales Chief (EXCLUSIVE)

Italy’s PiperFilm and France’s Playtime are joining forces to establish a new sales company dedicated to Italian movies called Piperplay that is launching from the Venice Film Festival.

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Carolina Cavalli’s Venice-Bound ‘The Kidnapping of Arabella,’ With Benedetta Porcaroli and Chris Pine, Debuts Clip (EXCLUSIVE)

Carolina Cavalli’s Venice-Bound ‘The Kidnapping of Arabella,’ With Benedetta Porcaroli and Chris Pine, Debuts Clip (EXCLUSIVE)

Carolina Cavalli returns to the Venice Film Festival with her second feature “The Kidnapping of Arabella,” following her debut “Amanda,” which played there in 2022. The new film, which stars Benedetta Porcaroli and co-stars Chris Pine and Lucrezia Guglielmino, debuts its first clip here.

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In ‘Diciannove,’ Italian coming of age takes a literary turn, but ends up just as sticky

In ‘Diciannove,’ Italian coming of age takes a literary turn, but ends up just as sticky

Late in Italian writer-director Giovanni Tortorici’s pop-up book of a coming-of-age movie “Diciannove” (Nineteen), there’s a great scene in which his arrogant, neurotic protagonist, Leonardo (Manfredi Marini), a student of classical Italian literature in Siena, is visiting a cousin (Zackari Delmas) attending university in Milan. As the two commiserate over crazy adventures, the chatter turns to disagreements and griping (culture, language, kids today, drugs aren’t fun anymore) and suddenly they sound like middle-aged men bemoaning why anything ever had to change.

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